Browse

/bɹaʊz/ · verb

Meaning

To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand..

Definitions by Sense

1. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
3. (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
4. (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
5. (archaic) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
6. (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
7. (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
8. (countable) The act of browsing through something.

Example Sentences

I'm just browsing around.

I stopped in several bookstores to browse.

At Hampton Court the little flocks of visitors are not provided with an official bellwether, but are left to browse at discretion upon the local antiquities.

The little room in which he found himself was plainly the bookseller's sanctum, and contained his own private library. Gilbert browsed along the shelves curiously. The volumes were mostly shabby and bruised; they had evidently been picked up one by one in the humble mangers of the second-hand vendor.

HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.

Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats.

Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.

The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]

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• browses
• browsing
• browsed

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